Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Global-Tech v. SEB -- I see, said the willfully blind man

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It's not that often when the Supreme Court takes a patent case -- and it's almost always when it thinks the Federal Circuit, who is ...
Monday, May 30, 2011

Skyworks Dodges Patent Spat With Linear Technology

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Woburn-based Skyworks acquired Advanced Analogic this week for the eye-popping amount of $262 million. But what wasn't as well known w...

Why Samsung Gets a Look at the iPad3 and You Don't

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Well, first, they haven't actually gotten to look at it yet -- that's in the hands of Judge Koh of the Northern District of Californ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Mirror World v. Apple -- The Entire Market Value Rule Strikes Again

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For damages purposes, this case is actually known for an apparent mixup, where the jury awarded damages per patent for essentially the same...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

ePlus v. Lawson Software -- ResQNet Doesn't Let You Pick and Choose

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As the ResQNet decision continues to roll on through the world of patent damages, the scope of how and when to use settlement agreements to ...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Sanofi-Aventis v. Glenmark -- After Uniloc, Where Does an Expert Start the Reasonable Royalty Analysis?

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In Uniloc , the Federal Circuit struck down the disfavored 25% "rule of thumb" (which held that, as a "starting place" a...

LaserDynamics v. Quanta -- Limits to Grain Processing's Non-Infringing Alternative

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In this case , LaserDynamics sued Quanta for infringing a patent for automatically determining the type os disk being used in a optical disk...

Lear Automotive v. Johnson Controls -- Live or Die by the Survey?

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Although the Federal Circuit has stated repeatedly that surveys -- when done properly -- can provide valuable evidence for patent damages an...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

The Continuing Saga of ResQNet -- How Discoverable are Patent Settlement Negotiations?

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Since the Federal Circuit's decision in ResQNet.com, Inc. v. Lansa, Inc., 594 F.3d 860 (Fed. Cir. 2010), holding that "litigatio...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

MasterObjects sues Google and Amazon on Instant Search Patent -- If It's Instant, What Took You So Long?

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This week, a Netherlands company called MasterObjects (not a troll -- they actually appear to have a product) finally got around to suing Am...